Best way to sell old computers?

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Good day all,

I was just wondering how or what you all do with your old systems if you're trying to get some money out of them. Do you try to ebay them if they're still fairly recent and working? Do you sell the parts individually? Do you have any sort of PC shops locally that buy old hardware at a steep discount and resell them? Do you just recycle them?

I've thought of ebaying a used system, but I'm not sure if that is the best approach. Personally I'd love to dump mine off at a local PC store for a little cash, but with how rare they are, I have no idea if one even exists (Charlotte, NC). Usually, I've just given them to relatives or friends, but figure with my spending habits on new components that maybe I should get something out of it if I can.

Please leave a comment if you have any experience with this.
 
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I use ebay, but the cost of it is horrid if you sell a lot. They take combined with Paypal about 13% of the total you get. On the contrary, you'll find a buyer faster. There is always someone looking for what you have.

Craigslist sometimes works, but it takes a while.

PC stores will give you crap for the price, so I wouldn't go there.

I think if your friends need another PC it would be easiest to sell it to them
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I use ebay, but the cost of it is horrid if you sell a lot. They take combined with Paypal about 13% of the total you get. On the contrary, you'll find a buyer faster. There is always someone looking for what you have.

Craigslist sometimes works, but it takes a while.

PC stores will give you crap for the price, so I wouldn't go there.

I think if your friends need another PC it would be easiest to sell it to them
 
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If they're too old to really sell for even as a web-browsing machine, I wipe the drive and strip it down for recycling. I have a scrap-metal facility relatively close to me that pays decent enough prices on the materials to make it worth the effort to separate. Prices vary greatly by region, but in general it should be worth it to at least disassemble the PC as opposed to just ditching it as a single unit, if they even let you. (If they do, it'll likely be counted as tin/mixed metal, which has a very low rate of a few cents per pound.)

Google "Metal recyclers near (your zipcode)" to find recyclers in your area, then call or email them for quotes or rate tables.

Little factoid: When AT&T made a big push to convert their network backbone to fiber, they funded a big chunk of the conversion just from selling the old copper.
 
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Thanks for your input you two. The parts I may sell were fairly recent, like an i5-3570k and so on. I was kinda hoping that there was a chain of 'gamer pc pawn shops' that would take old gaming PCs for less money and resell them because it'd be far less hassle than ebay. Someone could probably make good money on that, but it'd be a hard company to build, would probably have to work into something like Gamestop or Frys.
 
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Ebay really isn't a hassle, its just the cost of it which can be a little annoying.

Fairly new parts will be easy to sell on craigslist, so I would try that first, and if it takes to long try ebay.

OR

List them on PCpartpicker, Hardware trade on reddit, here on the forums in the classifieds.

Then you have a wider chance and have no ebay charges.
 
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